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The Northern Transition Area Between Leonese and Castilian The northern transition area between Leonese and Castilian Autor(en): Penny, Ralph Objekttyp: Article Zeitschrift: Revue de linguistique romane Band (Jahr): 42 (1978) Heft 165-166 PDF erstellt am: 03.10.2021 Persistenter Link: http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-399655 Nutzungsbedingungen Die ETH-Bibliothek ist Anbieterin der digitalisierten Zeitschriften. Sie besitzt keine Urheberrechte an den Inhalten der Zeitschriften. Die Rechte liegen in der Regel bei den Herausgebern. Die auf der Plattform e-periodica veröffentlichten Dokumente stehen für nicht-kommerzielle Zwecke in Lehre und Forschung sowie für die private Nutzung frei zur Verfügung. Einzelne Dateien oder Ausdrucke aus diesem Angebot können zusammen mit diesen Nutzungsbedingungen und den korrekten Herkunftsbezeichnungen weitergegeben werden. Das Veröffentlichen von Bildern in Print- und Online-Publikationen ist nur mit vorheriger Genehmigung der Rechteinhaber erlaubt. Die systematische Speicherung von Teilen des elektronischen Angebots auf anderen Servern bedarf ebenfalls des schriftlichen Einverständnisses der Rechteinhaber. Haftungsausschluss Alle Angaben erfolgen ohne Gewähr für Vollständigkeit oder Richtigkeit. Es wird keine Haftung übernommen für Schäden durch die Verwendung von Informationen aus diesem Online-Angebot oder durch das Fehlen von Informationen. Dies gilt auch für Inhalte Dritter, die über dieses Angebot zugänglich sind. Ein Dienst der ETH-Bibliothek ETH Zürich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Schweiz, www.library.ethz.ch http://www.e-periodica.ch THE NORTHERN TRANSITION AREA BETWEEN LEONESE AND CASTILIAN In this article, the topic under discussion is that of dialectal and other linguistic boundaries. It is taken as axiomatic that such boundaries are rarely, if ever, sharp, but consist of a number of isoglosses, with more or less geographical space between each isogloss and the next. In establishing the linguistic boundaries even of the recent past, we are heavily dependent on knowledge of ethnic and political boundaries. In the case of the Leonese-Castilian boundary, the main difficulty is that not until the nth century is there a major political boundary separating the area where Leonese grew up from the area where Castilian originated. In previous periods, such political boundaries as existed between the two areas were of a minor nature and in any case their course is imperfectly known. By way of introduction, I shall review what is known of the ethnic and political boundaries in our area in seven historical periods : i) It has been claimed that the pre-Roman boundary separating the Astures and the Cantabri is one which has dialectal consequences *. Leonese certainly grew up in the territory of the Astures, while some have claimed that Castilian is the descendent of Cantabrian Latin. However, the course of the Asturian-Cantabrian boundary is open to dispute, as we shall see. 2) Roman provincial boundaries often followed pre-existing tribal boundaries. For a short period (between 27 and 3 BC), immediately after the conquest of the hostile northern coastal area, Asturian territory was included within Lusitania, while Cantabria was added to the Citerior. However, from the beginning of the Christian era, Asturia (together with what is now Galicia and northern Portugal) was also administered as part of the Citerior 2. Then, with Diocletian's administrative reform in the late 1. E.g. Menéndez Pidal, Orígenes del español, 5th ed., Madrid 1964, 214; R. Lapesa, Historia de la lengua española, 3rd ed., Madrid 1955, 28 ; A. Galmés de Fuentes, D. Catalán Menéndez Pidal, ' Un límite lingüístico ', RDTP, 2, 1946, 196-239 ; A. Zamora Vicente, Dialectología española, 2nd ed., Madrid 1967, 57. 2. C. Sánchez Albornoz, Orígenes de la nación española. Estudios críticos sobre la historia del reino de Asturias, I, Oviedo 1972, 87. TRANSITION AREA BETWEEN LEONESE AND CASTILIAN 45 3rd century, both Cantabria and Asturia, together with Galicia and Portugal north of the Duero, were detached from the Citerior to form a new independent province of Gallaecia1. Therefore, Asturia and Cantabria belonged to different Roman provinces for only 24 years. SantaneJU** OVlt«» T A U o t ft f V IXCAYA t »... ' '-.':'.- L O M al 1 t ¦>- - PALEGGIA B U, R Q OS OUYQ05 3) The internal boundaries of the Roman provinces, the boundaries of the conventus, also often followed tribal boundaries. Indeed, the conventus, are most frequently defined in tribal terms — tribes A, B and C are said to belong to conventus X — so that we do not normally know the geographical extent of a conventus, unless we know the area occupied by given tribes. In this context, all we know about Asturia and Cantabria is that they belonged to different conventus, Asturia to the conventus asturicensis and Cantabria to the conventus cluniensis. 4) Diocesan boundaries are known often to follow Roman administrative boundaries (specifically, those of the conventus). But little precise is known about the diocesan boundaries of northern Spain in the late Roman, Visi- gothic and early Reconquest periods. 5) Castile is of course part of the kingdom of León until the early nth century. From the mid 10th century we know reasonably precisely the boundary between the county of Castile and the neighbouring, less autonomous, 1. Sánchez Albornoz, Orígenes, 97. 46 R. PENNY counties to the West. It followed the Deva from the sea to the Cantabrian mountains 1 and the Pisuerga from these mountains to the Duero 2. But this boundary appears to be a new creation ; it does not correspond with any known boundary of any previous period. 6) There is no difficulty in tracing the Leonese-Castilian political boundary from the nth to the 13th centuries. But the castilianization of eastern León (south of the mountains) was clearly going ahead rapidly at this time, so that the linguistic significance of this boundary (at least, of that part of it which lay south of the mountains) can only be small. 7) Lastly, the unification of León and Castile sooner or later removes any linguistic significance the political boundary south of the Cantabrian mountains may once have had. The main purpose of this article is to discuss, first, how far the isoglosses which separate Leonese and Castilian are a reflection of the pre-Roman and Roman political boundaries in the area ; and, secondly, whether the medieval political boundaries have more or less linguistic consequences than the pre-Roman and Roman ones. It has been claimed that Castilian is the descendent of the Latin of Cantabria, while Leonese is the descendent of that of Asturia. Menéndez Pidal's substratum account of the development of Latin F - hinges on this theory : he claims that the aspiration of F- is a feature of Cantabrian-influenced Latin, while the Latin of Asturia maintained f- intact3. We have seen that except for a few years after their conquest Asturia and Cantabria belonged to the same Roman province (although to different conventus). The precise geographical extent of the Asturian and Cantabrian areas is not known. Almost the sole concrete information on where their common boundary ran in the area between the sea and the Cantabrian mountains is a reference by Pomponius Mela (ist century AD) to a river salía as the boundary between the Astures and the Cantabri. This river salía may be identified with either of two rivers (although conceivably with neither) : the Sella, which rises in Riaño (NE León province), flows through the Peaks of Europe, through eastern Asturias and reaches the sea 1. R. Menéndez Pidal, Documentos lingüísticos de España, I, Reino de Castilla, Madrid 1919, 13. 2. Menéndez Pidal, Orígenes, 476. 3. Menéndez Pidal, Orígenes, 41. transition area between leonese and castilian 47 at Ribadesella. Alternatively, the salía may be identified with the Saja, some fifty miles to the East, which flows into the sea at Suances (25 miles west of Santander). Of these two hydronyms, only Saja is a regular phonetic descendant of salía in its area (cf. palea > paja in Santander). In the area where the Sella flows, palea gives paya, so that from salía we would here expect *Saya. In the first edition of Orígenes del español, in 1926, Menéndez Pidal stresses that the f¡aspirate isogloss (whose existence he ascribes to ethnic factors) is located near the river Sella. However, he does not go as far as stating that this river had once constituted the boundary between Astures and Cantabri-. This step is taken by Sánchez Albornoz in 1929, in the process of attempting to establish the geographical areas occupied by each of the pre-Roman tribes of northern Spain 1. Sánchez Albornoz, then, identifies the river salía, mentioned by Pomponius Mela, with the modern Sella. But in ignoring the Saja and adopting the Sella, Sánchez Albornoz leans almost exclusively on the linguistic evidence presented by Menéndez Pidal in Orígenes1 (the fjaspirate isogloss). Sánchez Albornoz supposes that the form salía has been the victim of corrupt transmission and that the original spelling was *saelia. This neatly, if somewhat arbitrarily, takes care of the tonic vowel of sella, but fails to resolve the difficulty posed by the l + yod cluster. The dialects of eastern Asturias do not confuse the reflex of L + yod ([y]) with that of -ll- ([1]) ; and since yeísmo is unknown in this area, there is no possibility that the form Sella has been arrived at through hypercorrection (in the way that medieval Castilian Mayorca became Mallorca). Even starting from *saelia, Sánchez Albornoz's argument will not account for the form Sella, but only for *Seya. In spite of these phonetic difficulties, the argument comes full circle with the appearance in 1950 of the third edition of Orígenes del español, in which Menéndez Pidal uses Sánchez Albornoz's conclusions on the geographical extend of Cantabria in support of his substratum explanation of the aspiration of F-2. The linguist and the historian each support the other, but if we once deny the historical basis of their argument (the identity of salía and Sella), the argument becomes untenable.
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